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PANELIST BIOGRAPHIES
Table of Contents
PANEL 1A: Dispute Resolution – from Courts to ADR and to Courts again? .............................. 3
Rachel Ran, Research Assistant, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel ........................... 3
Shishir Bail, Graduate Fellow, Law, Governance and Development Initiative, Azim Premji
University, India ......................................................................................................................... 3
Dr. Quach Thuy Quynh, Lecturer of Law, Centre of Commerce and Management, RMIT
International University, Vietnam .............................................................................................. 3
PANEL 1B: On the Relationship between Institutional and Communal Law Enforcement .......... 5
Ather Zia, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, U.C. Irvine, USA .......................... 5
Laurel Eckhouse, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, U.C. Berkeley, USA ..... 5
Pedro Rubim Borges Fortes, Law Professor, FGV Law School, Brazil; DPhil Candidate,
Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, England; J.S.M. ’08, Stanford Law School, USA ........ 5
PANEL 2: Traditional Legal Concepts and Socio-legal Reconstructions ...................................... 6
Katharina Isabel Schmidt, Visiting Researcher, Yale Law School, USA .................................. 6
Andrew Brighten, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Law, U.C. Berkeley, USA ................................ 6
Erlend M. Leonhardsen, Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway ......... 6
Georgios Dimitropoulos, LL.M. Candidate, Yale Law School, USA ........................................ 7
PANEL 3: Legal Transplantations and Historical Perspectives ..................................................... 8
Hannah Laqueur, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Law, U.C. Berkeley, USA ................................. 8
Bo-Shone Fu, S.J.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin Law School, USA ........................... 8
Molly Marie Pucci, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Stanford University, USA ........ 8
PANEL 4: Corporations, the Private Sector, and Legal Enforcement ............................................ 9
Sinee Sang-aroonsiri, LL.M. Candidate, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University, Japan ... 9
Radek Goral, J.S.D. Candidate, Stanford Law School, USA ..................................................... 9
Gisela Ferreira Mation, Visiting Researcher, Yale Law School, USA ....................................... 9
Jorge Atria, Ph.D. Candidate, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany ............................................. 9
PANEL 5: Order in Order-less Places .......................................................................................... 11
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Alethea Sargent, Law Clerk to the Honorable Maxine M. Chesney; JD ’12, Stanford Law
School, USA ............................................................................................................................. 11
Nicole Lindahl, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Law, U.C. Berkeley, USA.................................. 11
Yeon Jung Yu, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, USA ..... 11
PANEL 6: The Community, the Family and the Self – on the Struggle for Identity in the Local
and Global Context ....................................................................................................................... 13
Eden Sarid, Associate, S. Horowitz & Co. Advocates and Patent Attorneys, Israel ................ 13
Asmita Singh, LL.M. Candidate, Columbia Law School, USA ............................................... 13
Wei Shuai, J.S.D. Candidate, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong ............................. 13
PANEL 7: Constitutional and Legal Reforms from a Socio-legal Perspective ............................ 14
Arm Tungnirun, J.S.M. Candidate, Stanford Law School, USA .............................................. 14
Carolina Silva Portero, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School, USA..................................... 14
Thomaz Pereira, J.S.D. Candidate, Yale Law School, USA .................................................... 14
PANEL 8: Administrative Law, Regulation, and Governance ..................................................... 15
Dr. Danny Cullenward, Philomathia Research Fellow, Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute,
U.C. Berkeley; JD/Ph.D. ’13, Stanford University, USA ......................................................... 15
Dr. Natasha Salinas, Professor of Law, School Of Economics, Business and Political Science,
Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), Brazil ................................................................... 15
Julia Cadaval Martins, S.J.D. Candidate, Georgetown Law School, USA............................... 15
Ching-Fu Lin, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School, USA .................................................. 16
PANEL 9 –The Role of Law in Education ................................................................................... 17
Abhinav Chandrachud, J.S.D. Candidate, Stanford Law School, USA ................................... 17
Doron Dorfman, J.S.M. Candidate, Stanford Law School, USA ............................................. 17
Netta Barak-Corren, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School, USA ......................................... 17
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PANEL 1A: Dispute Resolution – from Courts to ADR and to
Courts again?
Rachel Ran, Research Assistant, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel
Rachel Ran is an Israeli lawyer, currently studying in the European Master in Law in Economics
program. Graduated from the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law in 2010 with LL.B in law and
technology, Ms. Ran is the author of Members only?: Online Dispute Resolution in the Kibbutz
Society, which won the Shlomo Cohen and Co. award for outstanding student papers in the field
of dispute resolution. Following her graduation in 2010, Ms. Ran worked for the Israeli State
Attorney, Department of International Affairs, and since 2012 has collaborated with Dr. Orna
Rabinovich-Einy as a research assistant in areas of procedural law and ADR. As a research
student at the University of Hamburg, Germany, her current research focuses on regulation of
pension systems.
Areas of interest: behavioral approach to law; economic analysis of law; international law; IT and
telecommunication law; alternative dispute resolution.
Shishir Bail, Graduate Fellow, Law, Governance and Development Initiative,
Azim Premji University, India
Shishir holds a B.A. L.L.B (Hons.) degree from the West Bengal National University of Juridical
Sciences, Kolkata. His current institutional affiliation is with the Law, Governance and
Development Initiative at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. His work at APU is focused
on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Indian Legal System, and has so far traversed
two distinct lines. The first is the empirical study of the Indian criminal justice system, while the
second is the study of institutions of lower court reform in India. Shishir is keen on contributing
to the sustained and empirically rigorous analysis of the functioning of the Indian legal system,
and of programs for the reform of its many constituent parts.
Aside from his work, Shishir is an avid drummer, a supporter of Arsenal FC, and a lover of
animals of all shapes and sizes.
Dr. Quach Thuy Quynh, Lecturer of Law, Centre of Commerce and
Management, RMIT International University, Vietnam
Expertise:
Corporate Governance, Business Law, Legal Transplantation, Legal Professional Training
Background:
Quach Thuy Quynh had seven years to work as a lecturer of corporate law at Vietnam Judicial
Academy that provides training courses for future lawyers and judges of Vietnam. She graduated
from Hanoi Law University in 1999, and finished her LL.M thesis on contract law in 2004. Most
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recently, she joined RMIT Vietnam University as lecturer of Commercial Law and Company
Law. Besides academic career, she has also practiced as of-counsel for some law firms in
Vietnam.
Quach Thuy Quynh obtained her LL.D at Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University in
Fukuoka, Japan. Her field of research is corporate governance. Her thesis is about shareholder
protection and viability of transplanted corporate governance mechanisms in transition
economies. Her publications both in Vietnamese and English focuses on legal mechanisms to
protect shareholders or other vulnerable groups, legal transplantation and contemporary issues of
company law and legal professional training.
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PANEL 1B: On the Relationship between Institutional and
Communal Law Enforcement
Ather Zia, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, U.C. Irvine, USA
Ather Zia is from Kashmir. She is currently finishing her dissertation at the department of
Anthropology at UC Irvine. Ather has been a journalist with BBC and has worked as a civil
servant with the Kashmir government. She is a published author and columnist. Her essays and
creative work have appeared in a variety of magazines. She also writes fiction and poetry, having
published her first collection of poems, titled "The Frame." Ather won the 2013 second prize for
her ethnographic poetry on Kashmir from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology (AAA). She
is the founder-editor of Kashmir Lit a journal based on writings on Kashmir at
www.kashmirlit.org. In fall 2014 Ather will be joining the faculty at Anthropology department at
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley.
Laurel Eckhouse, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, U.C.
Berkeley, USA
Laurel Eckhouse is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California,
Berkeley. Her dissertation examines the consequences of bureaucratic decision-making for
social integration, civic engagement, and other forms of political participation, focusing on the
case of police strategies in US cities. She is also interested in quantitative and mixed-methods
research design. She is a faculty member at the Prison University Project in San Quentin State
Prison. Before entering graduate school, she received a B.A. from Swarthmore College, taught
high school, and led Outward Bound courses.
Pedro Rubim Borges Fortes, Law Professor, FGV Law School, Brazil; DPhil
Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, England; J.S.M. ’08,
Stanford Law School, USA
Pedro Rubim Borges Fortes holds a LLB from UFRJ, a BA from PUC-Rio, a LLM from
Harvard, a JSM from Stanford and is currently pursuing a DPhil at the Centre for Socio-Legal
Studies at the University of Oxford. In addition, he is a Professor of Law at FGV Law School
(Rio de Janeiro) and has held visiting positions at the WB NUJS (India), the Goethe University
(Germany) and the Max Planck Institutes of Hamburg and Frankfurt (Germany). Among his
academic honors, he was three times honored as a top law professor at the graduation
ceremonies, selected for the IV International Junior Faculty Forum in 2011, and nominated for
the Podgórecki Prize for Junior Scholars of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law in
2014. He has published op-eds, articles, and chapters in Portuguese and English and recently
taught comparative constitutional law for the Stanford Program at Oxford.
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PANEL 2: Traditional
Reconstructions
Biographies
Legal
Concepts
and
Socio -legal
Katharina Isabel Schmidt, Visiting Researcher, Yale Law School, USA
Katharina obtained a joint LL.B/Baccalaureus Legum degree in German and English Law from
University College London and the University of Cologne. During this time she worked as a
research assistant for several international law firms as well as the German Foreign Office. She
was also a finalist in the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition. Subsequently,
Katharina went to the University of Oxford to read for the BCL, focusing on jurisprudence and
legal philosophy. During this time, she also worked as a freelance research assistant for the Max
Planck Institute for International and Comparative Private Law After working as a research and
teaching assistant at the University of Cologne for a year, Katharina went on to pursue an LL.M
degree at the Yale Law School where she focused on legal history, comparative law and private
law theory. Katharina is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Yale Law School and will start her
doctorate in the field of comparative intelllectual legal history in September. In particular, she
will be engaging in a comparative-historical analysis of diverging ‘realist’ or ‘anti-formalist’
tendencies in early 20th century German and American legal thought.
Andrew Brighten, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Law, U.C. Berkeley, USA
Andrew Brighten is a Ph.D. candidate in Jurisprudence & Social Policy at U.C. Berkeley’s
School of Law. He holds a B.C.L./LL.B. from McGill University’s Faculty of Law and a M.A. in
Economics from Queen’s University. Andrew’s ambition is to conduct empirically grounded and
publicly relevant work in legal, political, and social theory, relying on sociological insight and
empirical methods to illuminate questions inspired by more humanistic theory as well as
contemporary social problematics. His recent work includes an ethnographic field study of the
Occupy Movement, which bridges Frankfurt School critical theory with social movement
framing theory and legal consciousness, in order to investigate the role of law in the micropolitics of a legitimation crisis movement. Andrew also recently published an article in the
Indigenous Law Journal, surveying anthropological evidence and indigenous legal materials to
ground an argument that misleading assumptions about indigenous legal culture on the part of
legislators and non-Aboriginal activists have impeded efforts to reform Canadian animal cruelty
laws for over a decade. Andrew’s dissertation undertakes an historical and empirical
investigation of how jurisprudence interprets and influences transformative politics in times of
crisis.
Erlend M. Leonhardsen, Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo,
Norway
Erlend M. Leonhardsen is a Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Law,
Department of Energy and Petroleum Law. He holds degrees from the University of Oslo (JD
equivalent 2008) and Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M. 2009). In 2012/2013 he was a
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Visiting Researcher at Yale Law School. He has previously worked as a lawyer in the Norwegian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His main research interests are in international dispute settlement,
investment treaty arbitration, treaty law and EU law.
Georgios Dimitropoulos, LL.M. Candidate, Yale Law School, USA
Georgios studied law at the University of Athens, Greece, and holds an LL.M. and a Ph.D.
(summa cum laude, EGPL Thesis Prize 2011) for a dissertation in Global and EU administrative
law from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Currently he is a Senior Research Fellow at the
Max Planck Institute Luxembourg, whereas at the same time he is finishing an LL.M. at Yale
Law School. Before joining the institute he was Hauser Research Scholar at New York
University (NYU) School of Law, he completed an internship at the European Commission’s
Directorate General Enterprise and Industry (Chemicals Unit), whereas during his Ph.D. studies
he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for German and European Administrative Law
of the University of Heidelberg. His main research areas are international dispute resolution,
international economic law, global and EU administrative law, and economic sociology.
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PANEL 3: Legal Transplantations and Historical Perspectives
Hannah Laqueur, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Law, U.C. Berkeley, USA
Hannah Laqueur is a Ph.D. Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at UC Berkeley Law,
with specializations in law and economics and criminal justice policy. She holds a Master’s
degree in Public Policy from Columbia University, and before coming to graduate school worked
as a policy analyst at the New York City Mayor’s Office. Her research interests include drug
policy, policing, sentencing, peer influence, and, more broadly, the application of behavioral
science to questions of public policy
Bo-Shone Fu, S.J.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin Law School, USA
Mr. Fu is currently a S.J.D. Candidate of University of Wisconsin Madison. Main research
interests focus on labor & employment law, comparative law and employment discrimination.
He had his LL.B in National Chungcheng University (Taiwan), a Master of Industrial Relations
in National Chengchi University (Taiwan) and a Master of Law (LL.M) in University of
Wisconsin Madison (U.S.).
Molly Marie Pucci, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Stanford
University, USA
Molly Pucci is a PhD candidate in history at Stanford University. She holds an MA in history
from Stanford and an MA in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies from Harvard
University. She has conducted research in Czech, Polish, German, and Russian for her current
PhD dissertation: a comparative study of the building of communist states and security forces in
Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany after the Second World War. Her academic interests
include the history of law, security and intelligence services, and communist states.
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PANEL 4: Corporations, the Private Sector, and Legal
Enforcement
Sinee Sang-aroonsiri, LL.M. Candidate, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto
University, Japan
Sinee is a Thai studying in Japan. She holds a LL.B. Degree from Chulalongkorn University, and
is granted a Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship to pursue her LL.M. in Kyoto
University. Her specialization is in corporation law, but she is also interested in law and society,
causing her to select corporate social responsibility as her thesis topic.
Radek Goral, J.S.D. Candidate, Stanford Law School, USA
Radek Goral is a J.S.D. candidate at Stanford Law School, where he earned his J.S.M., Radek
also holds master’s degrees in law, business & finance; and mathematical economics from his
native Poland. He passed the bar exam in Warsaw and New York, and worked in Big Law, first
in project finance and then as a commercial litigator. As a scholar, Radek is interested in the
empirical analysis of law. His focus is on legal and financial innovation, and how the two
interact in practice: from changes in the legal profession to the market for legal claims to
derivatives trading to Bitcoin. For his doctoral research at Stanford, Radek explores American
third-party litigation funding: investing in somebody else’s legal claim for a profit. He spent
much time badgering lawyers and financiers into teaching him about their business, and now he
writes about the things he learned.
Gisela Ferreira Mation, Visiting Researcher, Yale Law School, USA
Gisela Mation's research areas include transnational business issues, the interaction between
private sector and government and international law before domestic courts. Originally from
Brazil, she holds an LLB from the Sao Paulo School of Law at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas, an
LL.M. from Harvard and a LLM from the Universtity of Sao Paulo. She is currently a Visiting
Researcher at Yale Law School. Previously, she practiced at the international dispute resolution
departments of leading firms Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, in Washington DC, and Machado
Meyer Sendacz e Opice in Sao Paulo, working mainly with international commercial and
investment arbitration, litigation and bankruptcy.
Jorge Atria, Ph.D. Candidate, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Jorge Atria is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Freie Universität Berlin in Germany, with
research interests primarily in sociology of culture and economic sociology. His work focuses
on social inequalities, linking economic aspects with cultural and social relations analysis. Jorge
received a BA in Sociology and a Master in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica
de Chile (Santiago, Chile). His work experience includes positions as Advisor for the Labor and
Welfare Minister in Chile (2009-2010) and Research Director in “Un Techo para mi País”
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Foundation (2006-2009). He has three times taught the course “Poverty and Inequality” at
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2008, 2009 and 2010).
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PANEL 5: Order in Order-less Places
Alethea Sargent, Law Clerk to the Honorable Maxine M. Chesney; JD ’12,
Stanford Law School, USA
Alethea Sargent received her Ph.D. in Anthropology and American Studies from Yale University
and her J.D. from Stanford Law School. She is completing a clerkship with Judge Maxine
Chesney on the District Court for the Northern District of California, after clerking for Judge
Gerald Tjoflat on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She is currently revising her
dissertation, an ethnography that considers how the homeless women of the “Willow Street
Shelter”—primarily those inhabiting the shelter’s “Older Women’s Program”—attempted to
rebuild social identities in the wake of homelessness. The project examines women’s small acts
of institutional resistance and their relationships with the institutional structures that surrounded
them, their fraught relations with their children, and the performative competitions in which they
engaged through speech and bodily acts. Revision for publication focuses on developing the
history of the congressional legislation and administrative notice-and-comment rulemaking that
gave form to the modern shelter system. The proposed manuscript will examine how
bureaucratic constraints shape local institutional structures, the effects those structures and
ensuing practices have on beneficiaries of government services, and the degree to which
legislative and administrative constraints may serve ultimately to frustrate congressional and
agency aspirations in law- and policy-making, as demonstrated by the book’s ethnographic
substance.
Nicole Lindahl, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Law, U.C. Berkeley, USA
Nicole Lindahl is a PhD Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at the University of
California, Berkeley. Her dissertation focuses on the experience of incarceration for men in
contemporary California prisons, specifically on how relationships are formed, navigated, and
policed. Prior to entering graduate school, Nicole served four years as program director and
English instructor for the Prison University Project. In this position she coordinated an Associate
of Arts degree program and taught English and composition courses at San Quentin State Prison.
She then worked for two years as the assistant director of the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John
Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, where she directed projects exploring
entrepreneurship and education as strategies for facilitating successful prisoner reintegration.
Yeon Jung Yu, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Stanford
University, USA
Yeon Jung Yu is currently completing her PhD in the anthropology department at Stanford
University. Her research focuses on the role of social networks among communities of female
sex workers in post-socialist China; this research is based on 26 months of ethnographic
fieldwork that she completed during the course of her PhD. Yeon has published her work in
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly. In the fall of 2014, Yeon will join the School of Medicine at
Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) as a post-doctoral researcher.
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PANEL 6: The Community, the Family and the Self – on the
Struggle for Identity in the Local and Global Context
Eden Sarid, Associate, S. Horowitz & Co. Advocates and Patent Attorneys,
Israel
Eden Sarid is an intellectual property attorney at S. Horowitz & Co., Tel-Aviv, Israel. Eden
researches in the fields of intellectual property, cultural property and human right law. His
current projects focus on extra-legal domains of intellectual property, intellectual property rights
of indigenous peoples, and the legal ordering of maritime cultural property. Eden serves as a
member of the Israeli Bar's IP board, is a research assistant at Ono Academic College, Israel, and
a teaching assistant at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Eden earned his LL.M. from the
London School of Economics and Political Science (where he was a Chevening Scholar), and his
LL.B. from the Hebrew University. Eden served as a legal assistant and law clerk to the Israeli
Supreme Court Justices – Justice Zilbertal and Justice Rubinstein.
Asmita Singh, LL.M. Candidate, Columbia Law School, USA
LL.M. candidate, Columbia Law School, 2013-14. I graduated from National Law Institute
University, Bhopal in 2010 and practiced in Delhi as a litigator before various fora.
Wei Shuai, J.S.D. Candidate, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
WEI Shuai is the J.S.D. candidate and Senior Research Associate at School of Law, City
University of Hong Kong. He is the current visiting scholar at Columbia Law School and was
visiting research fellow at Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Mr. WEI is a
member of Law and Society Association and European China Law Studies Association. Mr.
WEI published one article on Chinese women judges’ working style in divorce mediations in
Asian Journal of Women’s Studies and has a forthcoming article on Chinese migrant students’
education litigations in Asian Journal of Comparative Law. WEI Shuai is an invited speaker at
the 8th Cornell Inter-University Graduate Student Conference and Conference on “Rethinking
State-Society Relations in Contemporary China”, organized by Department of Politics and
International Relations, University of Oxford.
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PANEL 7: Constitutional and Legal Reforms from a Socio legal Perspective
Arm Tungnirun, J.S.M. Candidate, Stanford Law School, USA
Arm Tungnirun, from Bangkok, Thailand, holds an LL.B. from Peking University in Beijing,
China (2010), and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (2011). After graduation, he became a
Lecturer in Law at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, where he teaches Comparative Law,
and Law and Development. A prolific writer, Arm has long been an op-ed columnist for
Bangkok Business Newspaper and a regular blogger in a widely popular Thai blog. His research
and writing use comparative interdisciplinary materials to examine issues of development policy
and legal reform. He is currently a Fellow and J.S.M. Candidate in the Stanford Program in
International Legal Studies (SPILS).
Carolina Silva Portero, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School, USA
Carolina Silva-Portero is a Science of Juridical Doctor (candidate) at Harvard Law School.
Carolina received her Law degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (2009) and
her Masters Degree from Harvard Law School (2013). Before starting her graduate studies at
Harvard, Carolina worked as a legal research for the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights and
as a Legal Advisor for the National Assembly of Ecuador. She has done extensive research and
wrote several papers on social rights and constitutional law. Her current doctoral research
focuses on a comparative analysis of Plurinationalism in Latin America. Her main research
interests are comparative constitutional design, political theory and legal anthropology.
Thomaz Pereira, J.S.D. Candidate, Yale Law School, USA
Thomaz Pereira is Tutor-in-Law and a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School. Prior to coming to
Yale, he worked as Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Brazil (2009-2010),
as Chief of Staff to the President of the Brazilian National Council of Justice (2008-2009), and as
a full time researcher at Direito GV (Getulio Vargas Foundation Sao Paulo Law School) (20062008). He received a Bachelor of Laws (2004) and a Master of Laws (2008) from the University
of São Paulo Law School (USP), a Master of Laws (2009) from the Pontifical Catholic
University of Sao Paulo Law School (PUC-SP), and a Master of Laws (2011) from Yale Law
School.
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PANEL 8: Administrative Law, Regulation, and Governance
Dr. Danny Cullenward, Philomathia Research Fellow, Berkeley Energy and
Climate Institute, U.C. Berkeley; JD/Ph.D. ’13, Stanford University, USA
Danny Cullenward is the inaugural Philomathia Research Fellow at the Berkeley Energy and
Climate Institute (BECI) at the University of California, Berkeley. His research integrates
insights from energy economics and law to support the development of effective, science-based
climate policy.
Danny is an expert on California’s climate policy, carbon market design, and the intersection of
environmental science and policy. In 2012, he represented a group of climate scientists in an
amicus brief to the Ninth Circuit, successfully supporting the constitutionality of California’s
Low Carbon Fuel Standard. More recently, his work has looked at the effectiveness of subnational carbon markets, including the challenges associated with linking market systems in
separate legal jurisdictions.
Danny holds a JD from Stanford Law School and is licensed to practice law in California. He
received a PhD in Environment & Resources (E-IPER), MS in Management Sciences &
Engineering, and BS with honors in Earth Systems—all from Stanford University, where he was
a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Stanford Graduate Fellow.
Dr. Natasha Salinas, Professor of Law, School Of Economics, Business and
Political Science, Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), Brazil
Natasha is a Professor of Law at the School of Business, Economics and Political Science at the
Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), where she is currently teaching the courses
“Sociology of Public Law Institutions of Law,” “Law of the Organizations” and “Nonprofit
Institutions” at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Before joining UNIFESP in 2013, she
completed a Ph.D. in Law (2012), a Master of Laws (2008) and a Bachelor of Laws (2004) at the
University of São Paulo, as well as a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Yale Law School (2011). In the
Law & Society field, she is mostly interested in studying the intersection between law and social
policy. Her current research projects focus on public-private policy partnerships, legal
transplants of public law institutions and the organizational premises of administrative law.
Julia Cadaval Martins, S.J.D. Candidate, Georgetown Law School, USA
Julia Cadaval Martins is a doctoral researcher (SJD) at Georgetown Law and a research fellow at
the Social Agency Lab at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Before joining Georgetown, she
was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant at the Harvard
Environmental Law and Policy Program. Julia earned her LL.M. degree at Harvard Law School,
where she was also a Summer Academic Fellow. She holds an LL.B. from Rio de Janeiro State
University, and a master’s degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Julia
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is currently a Governance and Institutions consultant for the World Bank, working on a project
related to improving drought preparedness in Brazil. Previously, she worked as a consultant on a
social and economic development project in the North of Brazil, and was a researcher in a
project funded by the Brazilian government related to judicial review of administrative agencies’
decisions. Julia’s research is situated in the intersection of law, institutions, and development,
focusing on federalism, institutional design, and cooperative water governance.
Ching-Fu Lin, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School, USA
Ching-Fu Lin holds a double degree in law (LLB) and chemical engineering (BS) from National
Taiwan University. In 2010 he earned his LLM from Harvard Law School, where he is currently
a candidate for the SJD. He also serves as Peter Barton Hutt Student Fellow at the Petrie-Flom
Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School, as well as
Researcher and Associate Journal Editor at the Asian Center for WTO & International Health
Law and Policy. His areas of research include food safety regulation, WTO law, international
health law, and international relations theory. His legal scholarship has appeared in numerous
journals and edited collections, among which Global Food Safety: Exploring Key Elements for
an International Regulatory Strategy (Virginia Journal of International Law, 2011), SPS-Plus
and Bilateral Treaty Network: A “Global” Solution to the Global Food Safety Problem?
(Wisconsin International Law Journal, 2012), and Reassessing the Limits of the Codex
Alimentarius Commission (Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, 2013).
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PANEL 9 –The Role of Law in Education
Abhinav Chandrachud, J.S.D. Candidate, Stanford Law School, USA
Abhinav Chandrachud is a doctoral student at Stanford Law School. He has masters degrees in
law from Stanford and Harvard, and he graduated from the Government Law College, Mumbai
in 2008, where he ranked 2nd in the university, and won academic awards like the Hon. Justice
D.P. Madon Prize in constitutional law, the Ranganath Rao Prize for best student, and the
Yashwant Dalal Prize for best student. He has worked as an associate attorney at the firm of
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, as a paralegal (student associate) at AZB & Partners, and as a
trainee law clerk in the office of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India.
Doron Dorfman, J.S.M. Candidate, Stanford Law School, USA
Doron Dorfman, originally from Israel, is a JSM candidate currently enrolled in Stanford
Program in International Legal Studies (SPILS). He holds an LL.B. and LL.M, both Magna Cum
Laude and a BA in Communications, all earned simultaneously from the University of Haifa
(2009). Before arriving at Stanford Doron practiced law for four years in some of the most
prestigious law firms in Israel, where he gained experience in civil, administrative, and
commercial litigation. At the same time, he continued to be actively involved in a few NGOs
such as “Kav La’Oved, Worker’s Hotline,” where he gave legal advice to disadvantaged workers
and refugee asylum seekers (mostly from African countries). He also served as a research and
teaching assistant in courses on Civil Procedure, Torts, Law & Social Change and Law &
Disability at the University of Haifa. For the last seven years, Doron has devoted much of his
time to the promotion of the rights of people with disabilities gaining both practical experience
and academic knowledge on a variety of issues regarding this topic.
Doron’s main areas of interest include: Disability Legal Studies, Administrative Law, Study of
Procedures (specifically Civil Procedure) and Law & Identity.
Netta Barak-Corren, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School, USA
Netta’s research examines why people obey or disobey the law when it conflicts with their
religious beliefs, and whether lawmakers can mitigate this conflict in advance. An S.J.D.
candidate in Harvard Law School and a research fellow with the Behavioral Insights Group in
Harvard Business School, Netta received throughout her studies numerous awards, including the
Fisher-Sander award for her thesis and the Howard Raiffa award for her paper on false
negotiations. She was a Gammon fellow, a Shapiro and a Pearlman scholar, and a P.E.O.
International Peace Prize recipient. Her research is supported by grants from the Program on the
Legal Profession in Harvard Law School and the Next Generation Grant from Harvard’s
Program on Negotiations.
Netta is the founder and organizer of Harvard’s Empirical Legal Studies group, a research forum
for doctoral students and fellows to explore empirical methods in law. She received her LLB/BA
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in Law and in Cognitive Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2011 as the
valedictorian of her class, and studied in the LL.M. program in Harvard Law School. Before
Harvard, Netta clerked for the Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, the Honorable Dorit
Beinish.
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